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"Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn't we all say that from now on we will name God Allah?".(The Week)(Brief article)
"Allah is a very beautiful word for God. Shouldn't we all say that from now on we will name God Allah?" So said Tiny Muskens, a Dutch Catholic bishop, who went on television recently to broadcast his novel idea, which he says could ease tensions between Holland's Christians and its unassimilated Muslims. There is no inherent theological problem with Muskens's idea: "Allah" is the Arabic term for ...
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